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I'm using bencoder v1.6 and latest bcompiler (http://pecl.php.net/get/bcompiler) -- 1.0.2 at time of writing this -- and I ran a test on PHP5 static class functions and regular class functions, and then ran a test with __FILE__. I encountered no problems. So, at least the static class issue and the __FILE__ issue is resolved now.

In case of using Debian/Ubuntu Linux: When installing from the PECL (PEAR) package, make sure you have the php5-dev library installed in your system (apt-get install php5-dev).

Newer versions of Ubuntu may error out while installing bcompiler thru PECL, asking you to reinstall bzip2. This will not fix the installation. Instead, install the libbz2-dev library (apt-get install libbz2-dev) and try installing bcompiler from PECL again.

After installing bcompiler from PECL, don't forget to make sure you load the bcompiler.so library in your PHP configuration for the new bcompiler functions to become available. This is done by adding the following line to the bottom of your php.ini file(s):

extension=bcompiler.so

If you were to use the bcompiler functions thru your webserver, you need to restart it to reload the php configuration.

hello guys, since bencoder don't work for __FILE__ constants i have a bcompiler script working, anyone that want it can send me an emailthe source is 100% compatible with original file, the only problem is php5 new function methods that<?if (!function_exists('function_name')){ function function_name()}?>don't work but it's a php5 new method for understand bytecode

PHP seems to choke on trying to compile PHP5 classes with the private, protected or public modifiers. Additionally, when including files with properly compiled classes on PHP5, it works fine but when php tries to exit it throws a segmentation fault.

It's just not a great idea to use bcompiler for anything other than functions on PHP5, at least for now.